LOKI
COURT Unseelie
INFO Overview, abilities & inventory
TITLE None
OCCUPATION Trickster
ABLE TO FAST-TRAVEL Teleporting within the boundaries of Dorchadas
RESIDENCE IN 2,701 tba
RESIDENCE IN 2,702 tba
MAJOR EVENTS
HIGHLIGHT
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PLANS
Mostly building a CR base. Reuniting with Billy Kaplan, possible adventures with Magneto, and building both of those relationships. He'll be possibly teaching some low-level sorcery to a few select students, depending on how the idea itself is received. Otherwise, he plans on traveling around to see some of the sights along Dorchadas (and further, depending). He'll be looking into the sorcery within the world, as well as various kinds of sorcerous explosives, and different kinds of poisons. He'll want to examine the political structure, myths and find out more of the details about the war itself. There may be some rebellions and messing-up-of-things included in this, possibly with anti-shardbearer sentiments.
SUMMARY OF KNOWN DETAILS
✖ Part-time adjunct professor of illusion at a mage uni. Spreading the general illusion bits around town. Gaining some very interesting information from said exploits.
✖ Saber's super super super secret R&D project. There will be trials and errors.
✖ Possible dabblings with the Midnight Court.
✖ Rin, Johnny, Magneto, Zuko, Sansa, Sam, Maleficent
QUESTS
✖ REDGATE | The Walking Dead
TIMELINE OF EVENTS
| SPRING IN 2,701 (Mar, Apr, May) |
- MARCH—Roc, the king of the birds, throws some awful snowstorms across drabwuld. Since Loki's a frost giant, he likely won't become a Lokisicle, but he'll try to find some creative ways to get people un-frozen.
- MARCH—Boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons.
- APRIL—Histrionic Loki with a crazy emotionally-driving harp in his dreams. He'll find it and destroy it. This also might be an interesting time for his CR, since he'll be a little more sensitive and vulnerable.
- APRIL—Boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons boons.
- MAY—Golden swans migrate, devouring and destroying. Loki will be capturing and collecting them to gain some wealth.
- MAY—Possibly beginning to find a place to settle after the monarchs leave. Teaching some low-level chaos magic to a few new faces that he's possibly bunking with.
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| SUMMER IN 2,701 (Jun, Jul, Aug) |
- OVERVIEW—Refining his own abilities (depending on his boons) and continuing to foster the chaos magic abilities of those who may be around him during that time. Also helping Billy Kaplan with his finesse.
- JUNE—Checking on some of the Jabberwock sites that are affected with the rot. He can't do much in regards to healing, but it'll be a good opportunity to meet CR with the people who may have a better those abilities.
- JUNE—pOSSIBLE MAGICAL TOURNEY?? Using magic? Probably not, but he's very curious to see what other people in the world can do, so he may check it out for observational purposes, and to see if he can learn any new tricks.
- JULY—The sudden violence wrought by the anti-shardbearer demonstration hits a head, and Loki heads to investigate. Possible meetings with Magneto about this, as well as Acts of Vengeance 2: Electric Bugaloo, but with more good intentions.
- AUGUST—That sure is a bazaar, Sansa. Insert domestic bazaar stuff here.
- AUGUST—Leathann's Festival of Lights. SCREW THAT, WE'RE GOING TO THE FESTIVAL OF SHADOWS. Domestic festival stuff here.
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| FALL IN 2,701 (Sept, Oct, Nov) |
- SEPTEMBER—The magic that allows everyone to understand Drabbish goes nuts. Loki has the All-Tongue and can translate. Who am I kidding? He's going to mistranslate everything for everyone. Enjoy your miscommunications.
- SEPTEMBER—Drunk.
- OCTOBER—Drunk.
- OCTOBER—Oh Black Shuck too.
- NOVEMBER—Rounding up some of the mages/sorcerers from the Leathann prison break—but he's more willing to make deals than he is to turn them in. He'll be looking to gain whatever he can experience-wise/magic-wise/knowledge-wise from the escaped criminals. He also isn't against rounding them up, depending.
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| WINTER IN 2,701/2,702 (Dec, Jan, Feb) |
- DECEMBER—Drunk hunt.
- JANUARY—Heading back to Caer Scima to blow raspberries at the Seelie from a long ways away. IT'S REBUILT, TAKE THAT, SEELIE.
- FEBRUARY—Murder mystery at the children's festival.
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| SPRING IN 2,702 (Mar, Apr) | |
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luckily for him the illusion stops short, and a few fractions of a second before it hits, the illusion drops and they're back in Hiro's room. well, they were never really gone. it feels surreal, like Hiro's room might have been the illusion, and the snowfall might have been the real thing.
Loki's looking at his nails. ]
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Loki's way too calm about this and Hiro? Hiro's currently losing his mind a little.]
Dude. […annnnd that hand lowers.] That's what you're going to teach me?
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Clever placement is almost as important as skill.
[ he knew that Hiro would have a knack for it, just like he knew Jason would, too. both of them, while occasionally stumbling to find their footing, were chaotic. there were wants and needs and lies already there. illusion, in what used to be Loki's art, could be fostered in others. while he had thoughts of keeping it to himself, he knew that with both Hiro and Jason's reputations, that there would be trouble coming. there was a part of him that didn't want to see them without a way of defending themselves.
maybe it was easier because he found people like him, or possibly because he wasn't used to the prospect of having possible friends. ]
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Look at the chaos child you've started to create, Loki.]
I don't care, I'll work on it. I'll get better. [He's already thinking of how to use illusions next time in battle, thinking of ways to outsmart anyone who got in his way.] Just teach me...please? [And he rarely actually says please, on that note. But there's a small amount of respect still in place for the god and it's clear that they have similar mindsets. It was easier to associate with people like him, especially when you weren't used to the prospect of friends.]
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You're going to need more paper.
[ he says cooly.
there would be translation between the way that morals experience reality and the way that gods do. it would take more practice in finding the correct strings to pull and lies to weave. it wasn't like elementals or dark magic or light magic or anything of tangibility. illusions were lies built on perception, and occasionally those lies became truths, and they could become truths and trick the ones that wielded them. ]
First, you have to get better at lying. Remember that lie about the spire that you told me? I want you to make it better. Magic is only as clever as the bearer, and you can snap your fingers and create something unbelievable without setting the tone and poof! Someone sees right through it, and you're on the other end of a sword.
[ he sits next to him, leaning his palm on his cheek and his elbow on his leg. ]
Lie to me.
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Once Loki settles next to him though he shifts to see him better, raising an eyebrow in question.]
Lie to you about the spire, or lie to you in general? Those are two totally different things. I could tell you all kinds of stuff and you might never know if it's true or not.
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[ Loki explains, holding his hands out as if they're weighing lies.
he worked in lies. all kinds of lies. stories, exaggerations, rhetoric, and omission. it was just skimming the surface of what he could do. there were lies of comfort and lies of malice, there were omissions (Hiro's favorite, he found) and there were always ways to make the good sound bad and the bad sound seductive. he didn't discount their use. ]
So, the spire. Come up with something better. I'm in a mood to be convinced.
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[That's the part where it gets dangerous when you take into account the little brushes and telling signs. Everything and everyone started with white lies. People fooled themselves enough to thinking they weren't really lying if it wasn't hurting anybody. Did those count as lies?
He almost pouts at the remark, leaning back on his hands and staring at Loki for a moment while thinking of something clever to say about the spire. Something to convince him...]
This spire's better than the other nine spires, but there's no real reason for its haphazard interior design. [Half a truth and half a lie sounded convincing enough.]
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it was never a slippery slope with Loki—and if asked, he'd say that there was nothing slippery about it. lies were lies, it was just the awareness of what was a lie and what wasn't that was the point. people would lie to themselves about lying, try to make themselves sound justified. most of the time, Loki was with enough awareness that he knew what he was doing when it came to falsehoods. it's what made him good at them, and it's what made him good at illusion. ]
That's telling. Completely non-sequitur, Hiro. It would be a haphazard illusion. Keep your thoughts together.
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...can't I just lie about something else? It's a spire. There's not much to lie about a spire. [Looking for another way out? Hiro? Surely you jest.]
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There's enough to say about the spire that you refuse to say much about the spire. That leads me to believe that it's the perfect realm of our current study.
[ he says hotly. ]
I'm starting to get suspicious ...
[ the words are accompanied by the hum of the Jeopardy theme. ]
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Or he did before Loki proved him wrong.
The humming's obnoxious and he clenches his jaw a little as he forces himself to concentrate, thinking of what else he's supposed to say about this stupid spire that can account as a lie.]
You're actually in the common room instead of my bedroom.
[Still telling, not lying. A frustrated noise follows.] What's the difference? We're in a spire and it's a useless spire because I didn't design the whole thing myself and it can easily be split into two. You can't lie about a spire.
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If you can't come up with a lie for the spire, how do you think you'll be able to weave an illusion when you're forced to think on your feet?
[ Loki's watching him again, letting the hand he had to his chin fall just over his knee. ]
Pressure would be putting it lightly.
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I--[He pauses. He thinks of how Loki possibly tricked him the way that he did and he settles back to really focus. He has a thought. It's not a very good thought, but it's a thought that's strong enough that he thinks perhaps he can sell it. There's still one thing that bothers him though.]
You said to lie to you but all I'm doing is telling you. What would be the difference? How can a person lie without telling?
[He knows how he'd do it. Casual little subtleties and quick little words fired off without regard. That doesn't seem to be enough though.] But hey, if you don't think I can do this the door's right there.
[Or is it? He's focusing as hard as he can, trying to will the door away. It...probably doesn't help that he has zero idea what he's really doing. Think hard enough and you can make things happen. Isn't that how it works? He used to believe he was a decent liar but this is definitely taking longer than he thought.]
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Of course I think you can do it, duh.
[ Loki's bright eyes turn to look at him, and he leans in. ]
I wouldn't have offered, otherwise. But illusions aren't like elements—not like fire or thunder—less real, and mortals always seem to have drawbacks when it comes to that. Perhaps because it ties to their own existential ideologies.
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However, well, that certainly makes sense.] What, you mean everybody's desire to make sure they're really real and not a figment of everybody else's imagination? I don't know if I have "existential ideologies." I've made things real that shouldn't be a reality, remember?
[Baymax, for one. The Big Hero 6. Those things. Those stories.] So what you're saying is that I need to lie better by not focusing on if it's really going to be convincing or not. But I still don't get the difference between lying and telling you a fact. If I'm trying to convince you to believe what I want you to believe, that has to be a telling.
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I'm saying that there's no line between when a truth becomes a lie. It's about the belief inbetween. All good lies come from truths.
[ in Loki's world, there were all kinds of lies. lies that painted certain truths a certain way, convincing to those who wanted to hear that. he could argue for all the bad life choices and make them sound good. those were the grays that he walked in. ]
That's where you start. Dress it up, cut out aspects of non-belief, paint it over and re-present it. The lie then becomes a convincing truth, because somewhere along there, it was the truth.
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It's the same way as myths are presented, isn't it? Stories about you guys. [The gods.] They can be lies but somewhere you went and made it the truth anyway. Preying on the fact that people…people want something to believe in and even if it's the wrong thing they'll take it because it's presented as fact.
Kinda like how this spire's magic.
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And some aren't the truth, but between you and me, sometimes not even the gods can't tell anymore.
[ he crosses his leg at the knee, leaning back on his palm thoughtfully. ]
But people believe lies all the time. Some are good, some are bad—occasionally truths aren't always in the best interest. But the truth isn't really a good weapon in my arsenal. [ and he sounds sincere when he says that. he doesn't use the truth, but there are other ways he knows how to approach things. lies for the better are still lies, but the better is always for the better. ]
Kind of like how all of Drabwurld is magic. [ he challenges. ]
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You mean like white lies. Lies that are meant to protect people and lies that are meant to make sure things go according to plan. [Give him a second.] Like…lying about secret identities? [It's how he can connect the lesson, really. His superhero status involves lying about what they've done. The Big Hero 6 (so far) has been under the radar and he certainly hasn't told anyone what he's up to.]
And kind of like how all of us are capable of using that magic to our full advantage. Some of us are just better than others. [Fuck Jason. Fuck Jason for telling him he sucks at magic, he can totally be good at magic. Or at least fake it well enough.] The Drabwurld's probably like a playground for you, huh? So many little holes in the world that you can pick and choose what you want to string together.
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there's a loose shrug on Loki's behalf. ]
My abilities are also limited. [ just like everyone's are, but that's not so surprising. just how much, well, those are other details. ] Or so you've seen. A playground, perhaps, but cleverness in small spells with get you further than being dull with the fireworks. If you get my drift.
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Please tell me you're not trying to tell me my magic's useless, too. [Fire. Fireworks. Same thing.] Why? Because the small spells are much less noticeable than the bigger ones?
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Think of a small illusion versus a big one—a small lie is more manageable than a larger one. Why expend yourself when you can let your own cleverness do the talking.
[ and get so much satisfaction out of being smart.
hm! ]
Someone told you that your magic's useless?
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[But it is. It's a lot harder than he thought, but breaking it down piece by piece is helping. At the question he makes a face, rolling his eyes.]
Not exactly. Jason just told me I suck at it. [And it's obvious that he's still really bothered about that.]
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Well, you may have to up the ante.
[ he says smoothly, looking a little satisfied by Hiro's reaction. ]
He caught on right away.
[ Loki says it like it's nothing, waving his fingers as if Jason being good at illusion is just something that happened. ]
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